She bills herself as the high priestess...

She bills herself as the high priestess of an ancient Egyptian religion that uses sex in its rituals. She says she’s engaged in the rituals with more than 2,000 men. She and her husband are appealing prostitution convictions.

So, what now?

Why, her own television show, of course.

Decked out in a red-sequined dress and black fishnet stockings, Mary Ellen Tracy, 47, talked about sex for half an hour Tuesday night on Channel 3, the public-access station of Century Cable.

In this case, however, Tracy’s public access was strictly limited.

“We don’t allow commerciality or profanity,” explained Michael Lewis of Channel 3, which reaches about 100,000 homes on the Westside, Hollywood and in the San Fernando Valley.

Tracy, whose taped show appears about four times a month, discussed sex-change operations and produced a chart listing the differences between male and female sex organs.

“It’s not called Vanity Video for nothing,” Lewis noted.

Speaking of hosts, it’s true that KIIS-FM disc jockey Rick Dees has tumbled from No. 1 in the local radio ratings. But it’s not as though he’s disappeared . Then again, his picture is on the Main Street Dairy’s milk cartons.

How bad is the smog in Taiwan? Officials from that island nation, hoping to pick up tips on how to make their air and water cleaner, are visiting the industrial city of Vernon today.

William Clark, the chairman of UCLA’s geography department, has been the expert witness on U.S. citizenship in the county’s redistricting trial. You know, the one growing out of the lack of Latino representation on the Board of Supervisors. Clark is a citizen of New Zealand.

Union buzzters: Striking Kaiser Permanente workers in Panorama City and North Hollywood called a halt to picketing the last two evenings. The reason: malathion spraying.

Dispatched on a routine burglary call, Sheriff’s Deputy Louis Lotgering had no problem deducing that the blue customized Datsun pickup truck he spotted in a driveway was stolen.

The truck belonged to Lotgering. It was taken from his home in Burbank three years ago.,

A Temple City man was arrested, deputies said, despite his claim that he had “borrowed it from a friend.”

A film crew taping a special called “Hard Rock Cafe Presents Save the Planet” slammed into a fire hydrant early Wednesday, flooding the West Hollywood watering hole with 200,000 gallons of the wet stuff.

Not to worry, though. Firefighters were able to save most of the memorabilia, including Elton John’s sequined baseball suit. Wouldn’t want that removed from public access.

MiscelLAny:

So immense is the mile-long Vincent Thomas Bridge, which connects San Pedro and Terminal Island, that an eight-man team is repainting some part of its green surface every working day of the year.